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Dear List,

I have looked through all the archives, and have unfortunately not
been able to
find any answers to my questions regarding using the /proc filesystem.

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone in the know, could spare the
two minutes
to have a look at my question below, or tell me where I should look
to get it
answered.

Thanks in advance for your help,

Andrew


On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Andrew Miehs wrote:
>
> Dear list,
>
> I had some questions regarding using /proc/stat (on the 2.6 kernel).
>
> Can I assume that reading /proc/stat is 'atomic'? Can I assume that
> when I read
> the file, that nothing will change the data while I am reading it?
> IE:
> cpu 15948315 4687107 3321012 122412279 659908 43304 144288
> cpu0 15948315 4687107 3321012 122412279 659908 43304 144288
>
> can I assume that while I am reading the third value (system), that
> the fourth value (idle)
> will not be changed underneath me? Can I assume that all the lines?
> cpu, cpu0 will all be
> generated at once?
>
>
> My second question is regarding using these values to calculate
> usage...
>
> Should I calculate usage by
> (where T1, T2 are time)
>
> A) read /proc/stat
> Fill variables UserT1, NiceT1, SystemT1, IdleT1, IOWaitT1,
> irqT1, irq2T1
> wait a time
> Fill variables UserT2, NiceT2, SystemT2, IdleT2, IOWaitT2,
> irqT2, irq2T2
> DeltaTotalTime=(UserT2-UserT1)+(NiceT2-NiceT1)+(SystemT2-
> SystemT1)+(.........)
>
> Then calculate the values I want as the delta
> variableOfInterest / total delta
> ie: (UserT2-UserT1)/DeltaTotalTime
>
> Can I assume that all these values added together should add up
> to 100%?
>
>
> or
>
>
> B) read /proc/stat
> read variable of interest, ie: UserT1 and btimeT1 and number of
> CPUs
> wait a time
> read variable of interest, ie: UserT2 and btimeT2 and number of
> CPUs
>
> Then calculate the values I want as
> ((UserT2-UserT1)/NumCPU)/(btimeT2-btimeT1)*100 (Jiffies)
>

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